Oliver's Weenie

***Earth, where about 400 million dogs roam.***

I touched Oliver's weenie today. Oliver is Beth's dog, you know this because you read every entry of my blog. It was an accident. He was standing on the arm of my couch Saturday morning while I read the paper. I reached up and my hand touched his weenie. I've never had a dog with a weenie, so this was a true rarity for me, even more so than for the average Joe who has a dog with a weenie. Let's hope it's a rarity in his case, too.

That, of course, was a miniscule portion of my day, about one second of it, or .01 percent of a 24-hour day. Science says that the human species as we know it, homo sapiens, has been on Earth .000002 percent of Earth's existence. Diamonds, on the other hand, were created before life on Earth existed about 4 billion years ago, so they've been around much, much longer than us homo sapiens. They are so deep in the Earth that only powerful volcanoes can extract them, which compounds their rarity. This rarity, of course, is in part why diamonds are a girl's best friend. Dogs, of course, are a boy's best friend, but that doesn't necessarily mean we like to touch one's weenie!